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AJ+ is a unique digital news and storytelling project promoting human rights and equality, holding power to account, and amplifying the voices of the powerless.

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Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was heckled about his loyalties at a town hall.

Here’s how he responded.

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While riots and looting got all the attention in France, these protesters handing out food to homeless people have been mostly ignored.

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Italian police are detaining and firing tear gas at people protesting against war and rising living costs.

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Indian police have banned protesters from Jantar Mantar, the go-to protest site in New Delhi, as protests against election fraud continue.

The road beside the historic Jantar Mantar observatory has been used for mass demonstrations for over 30 years

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Does activism really make a difference… or are these Pro-Palestine activists just screaming into the wind? Meet someone who once worked at the UN, but gave it all up for more guerrilla forms of direct action.

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The Israeli government posted an AI music video titled “Jews from Judea” – using the likeness of singer and rapper Diana Adelaide (IAMDDB) without her consent.

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For Gen Z, rent, jobs, education and political exclusion increasingly feel less like separate personal problems and more like symptoms of institutions failing to deliver a stable adulthood. From Delhi to Paris, collective action in the streets shows governments that people can’t be ignored.

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Why is the U.S. right so obsessed with Hasan Piker?! @denatakruri asked Hasan Piker – and he had A LOT to say.

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“I wish I had slept between you … so I would have been killed with you.”

Dima Yassin is now one of over 60,000 children who’ve lost one or both parents during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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French police are inflicting “war-like” injuries on young protesters – causing severe injuries to students protesting for better conditions in schools.

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Can a 3,500-mile trip change U.S. Zionists’ minds?

@yusufomarsa is reporting from the Freedom Convoy 2026 as it travels from LA to DC.

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Across Europe, student protesters are flooding the streets – and bringing high energy with them.

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Workers in Pakistan are fainting from extreme heat while making clothes for global fashion brands.

Despite safety pledges, heat-stress protocols under the International Accord remain under review.

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From the Arab Spring to what some are calling the “European Spring,” music has been a central element in youth uprisings.

AJ+ spoke to music journalist @DanielGHajjar about the role music plays in rebellion.

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Albania is tearing up its own streets to try and fend off student protestors, after more than 130 days of mass uprisings in the country.

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“Our daughter has no arms.”

Israel’s genocide consumes every aspect of life in Gaza – impacting babies before they are even born.

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65 years after a brutal police massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris, French police continue to use violence against young protesters.

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This Albanian protester stood in front of a water cannon to protect her fellow demonstrators.

Students have flooded the streets of Albania’s capital to condemn the high costs of education, corruption, environmental threats and more.

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What if moral rules help your brain save energy?

Psychologist Jordan Theriault-Brown argues they make other people’s behavior easier to predict – which may help explain why we react so strongly when someone breaks them.

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As Israel heads to the polls, the public discourse against Palestinians has become more extreme – and increasingly genocidal. How have right-wing politics shaped popular opinion? And what are the consequences facing Palestinians forced to live under Israeli control?